Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immediately after the ceremony, Shultz flew off to a surprising destination: Nicaragua, whose Sandinista government Ronald Reagan has consistently assailed as a "reign of terror" dedicated to exporting Communist revolution to the region. For 2½ hours the Secretary of State conferred with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra at Managua's airport. After the obligatory photos, Ortega swung his chair around so as to face Shultz. Though aides were present, Shultz and Ortega did almost all the talking...
...pilot's seat. The early Apple and Radio Shack versions of his program developed a cult following among computer hobbyists, and the 1982 IBM version soon became an industry standard. This year, when Flight Simulator II appeared on the mass-market Commodore 64 computer, the program flew to the top of software bestseller lists...
...best game I have," says Carl Hutter, 7, an ace from Carson City, Nev., who once flew the simulator from New York to Los Angeles. "The hardest part is landing at Chicago at night." Abbott Paine, a pilot from Orange, Calif., praises the program's realism: "The view is terrific. When you turn, the landscape turns...
...gremlins were neither intelligent nor impishly charming. "They liked to eat," he says. "That's all they did. They would eat people's legs off, chew people's fingers. They ate Billy's dog. They killed Billy's mom, and her head flew down the Starrs. It was kind of grim." In its final form Gremlins is "soft" enough to have won a PG rating. Says Spielberg, who has managed to make three horror or science-fiction movies (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, E. T.) in which not a single person dies...
...flew in tight, nine-plane V formations